Command line parameters

"-minimized" = Start the program in minimized mode.

If there is one parameter left unprocessed, it is considered
to be an image file name and the wallpaper is set with that
image. Note that if the file name contains spaces, it must be
surrounded with quotes.

Description

Wallperizer is a desktop wallpaper changer. Once you install
it, the program only asks you one directory from where to use
pictures as desktop wallpaper. After this, the program will be
accessible from the system tray menu.

You can add up to 100 directories where the program would look
for pictures which would be used as wallpapers.

The wallpaper can be changed automatically, either in order or
randomly.

Brightness normalization is an automatic process where bright
pictures are made darker and dark pictures are made brighter,
which can be used to bring the brightness of wallpapers close the
to environmental light.

A calendar can be displayed on the wallpaper. Calendars have
skins. You can edit, load and save calendar skins. See this
example.

Known issues

If you have the option "Show Desktop icons"
unchecked, the wallpaper picture may remain unchanged (even
though Wallperizer shows that it has changed the current
picture).

There is a small bug (in the operating system) with the
outlined text, particularly the letters "M" and "W".
When the thickness of the outline is increased, some lines become
visible, though they should not be there. These artifacts get
smaller when the size of the font is increased. The artifacts
appear only for some fonts (like Verdana), but not for others
(like Candara, Georgia and Trebuchet MS).

Q & A

When I press Win + L, the font from Wallperizer's calendar
changes.

If you have a shortcut manager installed on your system, try
to close it and see if the problem persists. A report has been
made that "TaskSwitchXP" does just that.

History of changes

Version 1.2.3.1

The wallpaper is automatically changed on Windows 7.

Version 1.2.3

The program's tray icon displays the file name of the current
wallpaper, when the mouse hovers over it.

Version 1.2.2

Changed the directory where the wallpaper is stored (to the
system's temporary directory) in order to avoid certain problems.

Version 1.2.1

Added a label below the list of directories from which the
wallpaper pictures are loaded, which shows the entire name of the
focused directory. This is useful when a directory name is very
long.

Version 1.2.0

Added a one minute wallpaper change interval.

Version 1.1.9

Added a system hotkey to display a random picture as
wallpaper.

Version 1.1.8

Added an option to display wallpapers starting from a sharp
hour, like 08:00 or 15:00.

Version 1.1.7

Added option to center pictures.

Version 1.1.6

Fixed bug with the color of the week header when Sunday was
the first displayed day.

Version 1.1.5

Added an option to resize pictures so that the smaller axis
fits the screen, while the other resized axis is cropped. This
option brings out the central part of pictures.

Version 1.1.4

Added an option to display the first calendar day either
Monday or Sunday.

Version 1.1.3

Added a new brightness normalization method.

You may distribute Wallperizer for commercial purposes.

Version 1.1.2

Bug fix: There were some pictures (non JPEG) that were causing
the program to close / crash.

Version 1.1.1

In the dialog where the position of the calendar is modified,
the oval shape of the calendar is displayed.

Added two skins (actually, just the colors are different).

Version 1.1

Added a horizontal line which separates the calendar header
from the calendar body; it is right below the days of week.

The method used to normalize the brightness can be: direct
scaling (which preserves better the vibrancy of the colors of
the picture), mirrored scaling (which preserves better the
details of the picture), balanced scaling (which preserves
best both the vibrancy of the colors and the details of the
picture). It is recommended to use balanced scaling.

Added the "Visible background" system tray menu to
show or hide the background of the calendar.

Bug fixed: there was a bug in the positioning of the calendar,
when its bounds were outside the desktop.